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The Immortal Irishman the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero

"From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashi...

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Main Author: Egan, Timothy (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Subjects:
Meagher, Thomas Francis, > 1823-1867.
United States. > Army > Officers > Biography.
United States. > Army of the Potomac. > Irish Brigade.
Generals > United States > Biography.
Heroes > United States > Biography.
Irish Americans > Biography.
Revolutionaries > Ireland > Biography.
Prisoners > Australia > Tasmania > Biography.
Governors > Montana > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Last Day, July 1, 1867
  • Part I: To Be Irish in Ireland
  • 1. Under the Bootheel
  • 2. The Becoming
  • 3. Poetry in Action
  • 4. Pitchfork Paddies
  • 5. The Meanest Beggar in the World
  • Part II: To Be Irish in the Penal Colony
  • 6. Island of the Damned
  • 7. The Traitor of Tasmania
  • 8. Flight
  • Part III: To Be Irish in America
  • 9. Home and Away
  • 10. Identity
  • 11. The Fever
  • 12. War
  • 13. First Blood
  • 14. The Call, the Fall
  • 15. Summer of Slaughter
  • 16. Reasons to Live and Die
  • 17. The Green and the Blues
  • 18. A Brigade No More
  • 19. A Second Banishment
  • 20. New Ireland
  • 21. The Remains of a Life
  • 22. River Without End
  • 23. Inquest for Ireland.

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